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The spy who loved by clare mulley
Clare Mulley (born 1969) is an award winning biographer.
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- The spy who loved by clare mulley
- Authors clare mulley jacek dehnel talking about lbfpoland
- Life
- Eglantyne Jebb
- Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville
- Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg
- Other
- References
Mulley's first book, The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb (2009) won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize and was praised by then PM Gordon Brown as 'a truly brilliant book'. The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of the Second World War (2013) has been translated into several languages, and optioned by Universal Studios. Mulley's third book, The Women Who Flew for Hitler, a joint biography of two extraordinary women at the heart of the Third Reich, will be published in June 2017.
Mulley has contributed to TV and radio for the BBC, ITV, Channel 5 and The History Channel. A well-respected public speaker, she has given talks at most of Britain's major literary and history festivals, as well as venues such as the National Army Museum, Special Forces Club and British Library. She also lectures on the women of SOE for the travel company Historical Trips.
Mulley reviews non-fiction for The Spectator and History Today, and occasionally contributes to other publications such as The Daily Telegraph.
She is Chair of the Judges for the Historical Writers Association 2017 Non-Fiction Crown.
Authors clare mulley jacek dehnel talking about lbfpoland
Life
Clare Mulley was born in 1969 in Luton, England. In 2006 she graduated from the University of London with a distinction for her master's degree in Social and Cultural History. Her dissertation was on Affection or Affectation: The Role and Rhetoric of Maternalism in the Development of Women's Social Action in Victorian Britain.
Before writing, Mulley worked with Save the Children and Sightsavers International, raising charitable donations on behalf of the organisations. She has served as a member of the advisory board of the World Development Movement, a British NGO which campaigns on issues of global justice and development in southern countries identified according to the global north-south divide. She has more recently served as a trustee of the national charity, Standing Together against Domestic Violence.
Mulley is a member of the Historical Writers Association, Women's History Network, Royal Society of Literature, Biographer's Club, Society of Authors, English PEN, Fawcett Society, Writers Against Racism and National Secular Society.
As well as reviewing non-fiction for the Spectator and History Today magazines, and occasionally writing for other publications, Mulley often appears on radio and television and is a seasoned public speaker and literary chair, with extensive experience making presentations and lecturing in academic conferences, literary festivals and museums throughout the UK and in Poland, including at the Imperial War Museum, National Army Museum, Special Forces Club and Warsaw Uprising Museum.
Clare Mulley lives in Essex, England, with her family.
Eglantyne Jebb
In 1999, while working for Save the Children, Mulley was introduced to the life of Victorian-era British social reformer Eglantyne Jebb, and became intrigued with her life and career. Her biography, The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb (Oneworld, 2009) won the Daily Mail Biographers' Club Prize.
Jebb was an unlikely children's champion; she privately confessed that she was not fond of children, once referring to them as "the little wretches" and laughing that "the dreadful idea of closer acquaintance never entered my mind". She never married.
Jebb had soon won huge public support, as well as the backing of celebrities such as George Bernard Shaw, who wrote "I have no enemies under the age of seven". Five years later, she wrote the pioneering statement of children's human rights that has since evolved into the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most universally accepted human-rights instrument in history. "It is not impossible to save the children of the world", she wrote. "It is only impossible if we make it so by our refusal to attempt it."
The biography was published in 2009, to coincide with the 90th anniversary of Save the Children and the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book has received positive reviews across the English-language world. Then-UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown endorsed the book, calling it a "truly brilliant book". Reportedly, Brown read the book while away on holiday and was moved to offer the unsolicited review.
As noted on the copyright page of the book, all of the author's royalties are donated to Save the Children's international programmes.
Krystyna Skarbek a.k.a. Christine Granville
In 2012 Macmillan published Mulley's biography, The Spy Who Loved: the Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II. The book received excellent reviews in the British, American, Canadian and Polish press with reviewers describing Mulley's account of the spy's life as thrilling. Nigel Jones
The biography has now been published in Britain, the USA (St Martin's 2013), Poland (Swiat Ksiazki, 2013), Hungary and China.
In 2013 Mulley was awarded with the Bene Merito honorary distinction by the then Foreign Minister of the Republic of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski.
Universal Studios have optioned the book and in 2017 Angelina Jolie expressed interest in the project. [1]
Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg
Mulley's most recent work, "The Women Who Flew for Hitler" is published by Macmillan in the UK and St Martin's Press in the USA, in 2017.
Other
Mulley reviews and writes for various publications, including The Spectator, History Today, and The Telegraph.
Mulley used to blog monthly for 'The History Girls' and now guest blogs for various groups including the Refugee Council, and the Twickenham World Rugby Museum. All her blogs appear on her website.